Norfolk Southern Y90 Derailment Clean Up Altoona, PA 4.10.2021

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Here is a video I made of the clean up efforts after NS Y90 derailed in downtown Altoona on yard track 1. The cause of derailment was likely due to bad tracks. Four cars came off the rails with one flipped on its side and another car still on the rails taking some minor damage from the derailed cars. The train derailed around 10:30pm on April 9 and clean up efforts likely started around sunrise. The cars that were not derailed continued their way towards Baltimore while the damaged ones were left behind. While I was there, I decided to document some of the clean up efforts, which include the removal of a damaged rail and rerailing one of the coal hoppers. Because the train did not foul the main lines after derailing, there was little impact on the Pittsburgh Line. The area became a form B and trains are then required to go slow and sound their horns when passing by the clean up site.
News Sources
WJAC (NBC News 6): www.wjactv.com/amp/news/local...
WTAJ (CBS): www.wearecentralpa.com/news/l...
Trains:
Train 1: NS Helpers
NS SD70ACU 7232
NS SD70ACU 7254
Train 2: NS 21E
NS ES44DC 7620
NS ES44AC 8176
Train 3: NS 63V
NS SD70ACe 1034
NS AC44C6M 4313
Helpers
NS SD70ACU 7320
NS SD70ACU 7241
Train 4: NS 34A
NS ES44DC 7715
NS C44-9W 9662
NS AC44C6M 4029
Train 5: NS 36A
NS ES44AC 8065
NS SD70ACe 1215
Mid DPU
NS ES44DC 7639
Helpers
NS SD70ACU 7253
NS SD70ACU 7243

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@SuperBrookstone 2 года назад

Hate to see a derailment but watching these talented people deal with the aftermath is amazing.! These guys just take care of business. Nothing is impossible to them..

@markbickelhaupt4414 10 месяцев назад

Great video of R J Corman & Hulcher crews clean up the mess. Those sidewinders may have been designed to lift & carry pipeline pipe, but they takes care of fully loaded coal car like it's empty!

@ericsikma4764 2 года назад

Neat perspective. This vid follows a radio conversation with everyone which follows a video summarizing the event itself. Cool chronology! Classic response heard over the radio: "Yeah, I've got 5 on the ground." "Well, THAT's not where you're supposed to be!" Oh, boy. LOL!

@fredmauck6934 2 месяца назад

I agree! The audio was so mater of fact, no emotion, just a normal day on the job for these people

@philiphanlon9917 2 года назад

Impressive job on the rerail!

@chiefguns1980 Год назад

That's where I go to observe trains in Altoona.

@nspittsburghlinerailfan4356 3 года назад

love the video i was out yesterday morning and caught NS 592 Amtrak 42 & NS 20W & NS Helper set

@gleefullystruckbyccandtlos 2 года назад

My town on youtube, how unexpected!😆 despite living here I never heard about the derailment in April! I have a picture I took from the foot bridge looking up at where it derailed sometime after they repaired the tracks and you'd never know there was a derailment there a few months back! There's been 3 derailments that I know of(counting this one) in that area over the years. One was in that exact area and the other was further up the line above the 17th st. Bridge. It's really interesting to see how the rerail the ones that have fallen off the track.

@codemans123 Месяц назад

I was headed to the bar and drove passed right after the derailment happened. Pretty creepy cause no one was on scene yet.

@bradwhitfield3592 2 года назад

That's a really interesting doc, man. Now they need to get up Cresson way off US 22. I live right off US 22 in Hollidaysburg, PA (smack dab next to Altoona)...talk about a hell of a job, that is going to be a nightmare cause it's right on the ledge hugging the mountain and there is NOT a lot of room to maneuver, not to mention that is the main line, too; busy, busy, busy. I'm interested to see how that mess will be sorted out!

@anthonytidey2005 2 года назад

@chuckgilly 2 года назад

Those types of gondolas don't have belly doors, they use a rotary dumper.

@anthonytidey2005 2 года назад

Great video, love the details of the clear up, thoes converted bull dosers are great. In the UK the rail companies or Network Rail NR usually bring in mobile road crains to do the job. Presume the underside hopper doors were damaged so they could not operate so how would they get the coal out of the wagon. I think it was a bad decision that a our first femail PM made for the race for gas in the late 1970's early 1980's. As we (UK) had in excess of a 100 years with the fluidised bed coal burning, carbon capture and automatic sorting of household waste that govenment establiment perfected that she also close down, 30 to 40 years ahead of time. We and other countries could have been free of imports of stregic resource resource. Thanks for the video

@tomt9543 2 года назад

All these cars are coal gondolas that are rotary dumped at the destination. Most coal fired power plants in the US are/were equipped with rotary dump unloaders, many are capable of dumping two cars at a time. The bulldozers (railroaders call them sidewinders) are actually pipe laying machines built for constructing large cross country pipeline projects. The ones favored by railroad contractors are older units because they don’t have electronic controls that shut down the lift if the safe capacity is reached. These older units will keep lifting until the load moves or something breaks!

@anthonytidey2005 2 года назад

@@tomt9543 Thanks for the detailed information, I presumed that they were converted bulldozers, but now you said they were pipelayers, I have seen them in my oil magazines. Should have realized that they are inverted as you usually see a number of bottom shoots like the usual 3 on grainers. This is nicer for the RR as the bottom openers make a mess of the 4 foot, see ccrx 6700.

@tomt9543 2 года назад

@@anthonytidey2005 CCRX is a great behind the scenes channel! I watch it a lot! I retired two years ago after spending 41 years in the mechanical department of Southern Railway/Norfolk Southern clearing derailments (up until the early 90’s, we had a 250 ton capacity Derrick that we did all that work with, but the contractors put an end to that!) and dealing with the day to day struggle of keeping everything running. It’s incredibly satisfying to watch stuff like this on RU-vid while sitting in the recliner knowing that I’ll never have to fight the fight again! Ha! When we still had the Derrick, it was priority to clear the mainline of derailed equipment and lay down track panels for the MofW guys to bolt together. The derailed cars and engines were typically set off to the side in the clear, and track feverishly thrown together so the dispatcher could resume running trains, even though it would require a slow order through the temporary track. After the backlog of trains had cleared, we bring “the hook” back onto the mainline and begin putting cars back on the track. Very hard work, and very long hours! I remember several instances where we worked in excess of 48 hours straight through just clearing the right of way and laying panels.

@alexmodern6667 2 года назад

@@tomt9543 I have a lot of RR friends n know exactly what your talking about. Thank you for your dedication n service to our Railroads. As you can probably already see there's a decline in the industry and things are not running as they should be nor are they maintenance as well as they should be. It's all about saving money and cutting here cutting there. Less hands to carry the load.

@steves2694 2 года назад

Is there a means to separate reclaimed coal from ballast stone?

@4423422 3 года назад

Excellent video so informative too. Site looks good for VRF site.

@pennsylvanianrailfan 3 года назад

I have asked VRF about putting one there but they said it was too close to Horseshoe Curve. It is only a few miles from the HSC

@4423422 3 года назад

@@pennsylvanianrailfan Horseshoe is so heavy handed on the camera. The train speed was slower than La Plata . The video was so real maybe the closeness, eye level shots and great sound. I guess it would be the same trains and not a family setting. More like Beria, O which don't show often. Nice try

@pennsylvanianrailfan 3 года назад

@@4423422 Yes, maybe I should see and ask again.

@4423422 3 года назад

@@pennsylvanianrailfan Wouldn't hurt. .And would be nice if they could get a good camera position close in. Most of their sites are scenic, but not like being there to see a train up close if it is not too fast. Sort of like the BNSF and Union Pacific in Rochelle IL. Good luck

@justanotherghost4589 Год назад

Agreed, I'd love to see one either here at the pedestrian bridge or a little further down 9th Avenue under the 8th Street Bridge by the pipe and steel works, I can understand about it being a little too close to the HC but I'd probably like this a little more tbh, there's some good variety, like some local action, and with the right camera placement you can even see some signal action.